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Gardens are beginning to offer a bounty and there are several you can check out planted in partnership between community members, Niagara Beautification Commission and Grassroots Gardens.
It’s worth noting as well, some have bountiful supplies of purslane and lambs quarters, plants regarded by many as weeds.
Euell Gibbons suggested lambs quarters be renamed “wild spinach” because it is so bountiful, tasty and nutritious. Sorry I didn't have a photo today of lambs quarters. Maybe tomorrow.
Purslane, which clings low to the ground and looks like portulaca or a succulent, is growing with abundance at the garden adjacent to the Salvation Army on Buffalo Avenue.
It is eaten as a vegetable in most countries and is said to have more omega-3 fatty acid than salmon
NBC has sharing stands at Tennessee Street Community Garden is thriving!!!
Stop by the sharing stand and enjoy the bounty!
Tennessee St. Community Garden at 2039 Tennessee Avenue
There are 5 total sharing stands throughout Niagara Falls
• City Market Sharing Stand at 779 East Market Street
• Green Acres Community Garden at 401 Ferry Avenue
• Tennessee St. Community Garden at 2039 Tennessee Avenue
• Atlantis School Community Garden at 936 Depot Ave
• Walnut Avenue at 909 Walnut Avenue – in partnership with Grassroots Gardens WNY
Watch us grow
